Friday, January 28, 2011

This week's classic album, all the way from Berlin, Birth Control, with their ninth album from 1976, 'Plastic People'. A great progressive album from a band with many facets. And a lead singer drummer, to boot! Here's my current favorite cut from the LP, 'Trial Trip'. But it's all good!

Some no-nonsense, plaid shirt, pint of bitter and a packet of nuts blues rock this week for the Classic Rock Album: 'Tattoo' by Rory Gallagher (1973). Here's the opening track, performed live by Rory and his band a couple of years later.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

This week's Classic Rock Album, played from beginning to end, was the excellent third LP by Curved Air - 'Phantasmagoria' (1972). It was the last LP from the 'classic' original line-up of the band, and it's somewhat of a masterpiece, particularly the suite that takes up the second side.

Here's the band performing the big single from the LP, 'Marie Antoinette', which went to #20 in the UK charts!

Friday, January 14, 2011

This week saw a Classic Rock Album with boogie levels set to 10: Status Quo - 'On the Level' (1975), at which point they were at the top of their game, in terms of quality output and popularity. How did they do it? Here they are playing one of their biggest hits (from 'On the Level') to show us all how it's done:

Of course, we would be remiss to post this without mentioning the death of Don Van Vliet, who's demise was announced during the broadcast of the Show. He was a legendary performer, an inspired composer and a true one-off, original artist. Long will his influence be felt in the world of music.

Friday, January 7, 2011

This week's Classic Rock Album was discovered in lovely original issue mint vinyl form about 2 hours before we played it, in one of our favorite Atlanta record boutiques: Soft Machine's 'Volume 2' from 1969,

Here's a cracking live version of 'Pig' from that LP, live at Ronnie Scott's in London from 1969!

Artist - Album -- Song

Gong - Angel's Egg -- Flute Salad / Oily Way

Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste -- Pantagruel's Nativity

Henry Cow - Leg End -- Nine Funerals of the Citizen King

Colosseum - Live -- Rope Ladder to the Moon

Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster -- Seven Lonely Streets

Jethro Tull - Benefit -- Son

Gypsy - Gypsy -- Gypsy Queen Part I

Gypsy - Gypsy -- Gypsy Queen Part II

Spirit - Clear -- New Dope in Town

Norman Haines Band - Den of Iniquity -- Rabbits

Widowmaker - Widowmaker -- When I Met You

Wishbone Ash - Argus -- Sometime World

Heads, Hands & Feet - Heads, Hands & Feet -- The More You Get, the More You Want

Light of Darkness - Light of Darkness -- Love in Your Heart

ProcolHarum - Broken Barricades -- Song For a Dreamer

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King -- The Court of the Crimson King